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It all started with a plastic Kodak camera bought with S&H Green Stamps when Mary Kocol was just 7.

Harvards new Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) has led to the largest applicant pool (22,796) and the most competitive admission rate (9.1 percent) in the history of the College. The Class of 2009 will also be Harvards most economically diverse.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 4. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…

John A. Lithgow, award-winning actor and tireless supporter of the arts at Harvard, will be the principal speaker at Afternoon Exercises during Harvard Universitys 354th Commencement, to be held on June 9.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, is the first Brazilian president to come from the working class. A former metalworker who left school at 12, Lula led strikes in the 1970s that caused some to call him the Lech Walesa of Brazil. With a group of fellow labor leaders and intellectuals, he founded…

From Tom Paines Common Sense to Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin to the rap anthems of Tupac Shakur, protest literature has moved the masses, but generally left the critics cold.

Hilles Library will close on May 27 and reopen in October as the Quad Library. To ensure a smooth transition, please note the following arrangements:

A two-year pilot program testing the use of environmentally friendly cleaning supplies and techniques is ready for University-wide distribution, the programs organizers say, in a move that could reduce waste and improve indoor air quality.

Professor of Cell Biology and Pediatrics Mark T. Keating has been selected to receive the 15th annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Freedom to Discover Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cardiovascular Research for his discovery of genes involved in cardiac arrhythmias. Mutations in these genes can lead to abnormal heart rhythms, a major cause of death and disability.…

Some of the nations top female scientists will gather at the University today (April 7) for the third National Symposium for the Advancement of Women in Science. The sessions, organized by the student group Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe (WISHR), will run through April 10. The symposium will address opportunities available to female scientists, ways…

In the 1930s and 40s, many European scholars fleeing Nazi persecution found refuge at American universities where they were able to continue their research and writing as well as contribute their knowledge and experience to the academic communities in which they found a home.

Mehrangiz Kar sits in her spacious office beside a window that looks out on the soggy lawn and still bare trees of the Bunting Quadrangle. Her desk and an adjacent table are strewn with books and papers, most of them covered with the sinuous shapes of Persian lettering.

The Silk Road Project Inc., the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) have announced the creation of new collaborations designed to deepen and strengthen the interdisciplinary educational offerings of the three institutions.

If anybody can discuss the rise of neoconservativism, Hannah Arendt on Walter Benjamin, Jesse Jackson on Terri Schiavo, and the future of the theater in 90 minutes, its Tony Kushner. As part of the Office for the Arts Learning From Performers program, the playwright appeared last Thursday at the Loeb Drama Center, where the American…

Royal Society elects Porter fellow Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William E. Lawrence University Professor at the Harvard Business School, has been elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society…

Christine Korsgaard believes in the power of intellectual discussion. Now that she has the means to do so, she plans to make good on that belief by seeing to it that a great deal of stimulating, productive conversation takes place at Harvard over the next few years.

The Harvard Corporation on Monday (April 4) announced its decision to have Harvard Management Company divest its holdings of stock in PetroChina Company Limited.

April 25, 1674 – The Harvard Corporation orders that “freshmen of the Colledg shall not at any time be compelled by any Senior students to goe on errands or doe…

At its 12th meeting of the year on April 6, the Faculty Council received an update on export controls from Vice President and General Counsel Robert Iuliano.